They tell me you're watching me

[andrewducker]

For quite a while now I've been using LJ Toys intermittently as a way of keeping track who reads me, andd who doesn't. It's not something I've spent a lot of time on, but it's been amusing and informative to see who actually reads me on their friends list and what filter group I'm in, as well as who reads me who isn't on my friends list. Oh, the hours of fun I've had tracking IP addresses down to see where hits are actually coming from.

But I realised recently that I was checking it rather too often, and that I was thinking just a little too much about who read me, who didn't, and who I was writing for. So I just cancelled my subscription to it, and I'm going to do my best to just not think about it. People read me, or they don't, and that's fine - I know there are people out there who don't have an LJ, but enjoy dropping in from time to time, and I also know that there are people who have been on my friends list for over half a decade that only drop in a couple of times a year, and I don't actually think it matters that much.

I have real friends in my real life, and I have people who enjoy reading me, and I shouldn't let the two get confused (not that there aren't a fair number of you I wouldn't mind meeting at some point). I write for myself, whatever I feel like, and that's as it should be.

Now, if only my the last bits of this cold would stop fuzzing around my head, I'd be actually able to!

Comments

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

I have a free LJ Toys account. I log in to it every couple of days, just to make sure it doesn't die. I have it for the graph on my sidebar, mostly. I look every so often to see who is reading, but it doesn't bother me.

[accordingly.livejournal.com]

It's daaangerous. People know where you are!

Not me

[aberbotimue.livejournal.com]

I never read you.. who are you anyway??

quite a scary thought tho.. You have been writing prety much daily for over 5 years..

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

"I write for myself, whatever I feel like, and that's as it should be."

Absolutely spot on: my view entirely.

[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

does ljtoys rely on the readers loading images?

[andrewducker]

Yup, so if you block all images then you're fine.

[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

no, but I browse with images off by default. I may be stalking^Wreading you more than you think ;-)

[andrewducker]

Oh, absolutely. I'm sure there are.

[cdave]

I find it quite creepy. I'm going to adblock images from that domain.

[andrewducker]

Which would work, if the images were sourced from that domain...

(Scroll back through my journal and find my mood icons - they're what it uses)

[cdave]

Cheers! mock2 (maintainer of the ljtoys group) was using mood icons from ljtoys.